Bruce Willis | The Sixth Sense

It’s not often that Hollywood actors deviate from the usual characters they are known for. For Bruce Willis, people were used to seeing him in action-packed movies, but this wasn’t the case for the film The Sixth Sense. In the movie, he plays a somber child psychologist named Dr. Malcolm Crowe. He tries to help a child named Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) who’s struggling with supernatural experiences. The young Cole is too afraid to share his plight with other people but not with Dr. Crowe. As the psychologist begins to unravel the truth behind young Cole’s supernatural abilities, he ends up acting as a medium between Dr. Crowe and a slew of unhappy spirits. Both characters experience something unexplainable.

Bruce was paid $20 million for the movie. However, he was able to increase his yield to $130 million because he negotiated a percentage of the overall profits for the movie, including video sales, which reached over $100 million—an amount which is more than enough to use as investment money.